[coreboot] k8 status
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sun Aug 24 21:07:49 CEST 2008
Hi Marc,
we need your Fam10h expertise for this.
On 24.08.2008 20:32, ron minnich wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> On 24.08.2008 19:49, ron minnich wrote:
>>
>>> Note there are things left to do that are not at first obvious
>>>
>>> 1. all core0's in initram have to load microcode
>>>
>>>
>> This is going to hurt. You know that we only have 1k stack on all APs
>> (that includes core0 of every non-BSP)? With some ugly trickery, I think
>> 2k stack are possible, but you don't want to go there. Our v3 functions
>> are not really optimized to fit into a small stack.
>>
>
> fam10 requires microcode load prior to ram setup. We have to make this work.
>
OK. It's unfortunate, but we can make it work.
>> Can't we postpone microcode loading to stage2 or at least past initram?
>>
>
> AMD tells me not for fam10, so we might as well get it right from the start.
>
> question: if BSP brings up ram, can't APs use that BSP ram? Is there
> any reason this would not work?
>
I think Marc answered parts of this in the thread titled "[coreboot] K8
and Fam10 CAR". Other parts may be answered in the thread titled
"[coreboot] AMD64 BKDG questions". These two threads are marked for
re-reading in my mail folder because they have lots of valuable info.
Looking at http://linuxbios.org/data/yhlu/LinuxBIOS_CAR_09142006.pdf
your idea would probably need some re-architecting of the v3 code.
Anyway, Marc is probably the only person who can tell us for sure
whether it would work.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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